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Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won best film at Cannes last year with "Shoplifters," will open the 76th Venice Film Festival on Wednesday with his French-set family story La vérité (The Truth) starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke.

The Western Balkans' film scene has been thriving in recent years, reaching audiences across the world and winning awards at major festivals. And this week sees the opening of one of the biggest one in the region; the 25th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Founded during the siege of Sarajevo, it is today a major celebration of film, bringing together over 100,000 spectators and filmmakers to celebrate regional, European and international cinema.

Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho picked up a richly deserved Palme d’Or on Saturday for his “Parasite”, a brilliant family-based tragicomedy about the gap between rich and poor, wrapping up the most dazzling and political Cannes Film Festival in years, news wires reported.

Each of my colleagues is golden per se. No matter if he was a success or not, if he was promoted or not, it does not matter. In their early age, many actors cannot distinguish themselves, but later they work miracles, and vice versa - some work miracles when young and then go into oblivion or get lost forever, says actor Dimiter Marinov in an interview to Europost.

Israeli director Nadav Lapid's film "Synonyms", about an Israeli man who tries to suppress his origins after moving to Paris, starting with his own language, won the Berlin Film Festival's coveted Golden Bear award on Saturday, news wires reported.

When I came to Belgium five years ago, not speaking a word of French and having no contacts in the film industry, I did not see how I could possibly continue to work as an actress. I thought my career was over, but I kept pushing. I appeared in student projects for free, went to workshops and volunteered in various film festivals. And slowly but surely, opportunities started to come my way, says actress Lydia Indjova in an interview to Europost.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has grown its ranks considerably in recent years, and this season's collection of new members was the largest in AMPAS history. The result, revealed yesterday, was an unpredictable set of Oscar nominations, as foreign films, streaming movies and critically derided hits all scored big. The history-making lineup for the highest honours in the movie industry was also packed with people of colour and different nationalities, including nominees from Mexico, Greece, Egypt and Poland, as well as films featuring the stories of women and gay and black people.

It is just a feeling when I set he camera and check what the frame looks like. I still believe that the only criteria should be whether I like it or not. The only principle I follow is my sense of aesthetics, director Milko Lazarov says in an interview to Europost.

If I have to sum up my life in a synopsis for a film, I would start from a child who is an awful, even disastrous pupil. He later becomes a young man who quits school and prefers going to cinema theatres and watching films instead. But as he has read a lot, he is open to different challenges, facing life in a free and open manner and consequently getting into all kinds of trouble - in love, politics, social conflicts, film director Benoit Jacquot says in an interview to Europost.

Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won best film at Cannes last year with "Shoplifters," will open the 76th Venice Film Festival on Wednesday with his French-set family story La vérité (The Truth) starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke.

The Western Balkans' film scene has been thriving in recent years, reaching audiences across the world and winning awards at major festivals. And this week sees the opening of one of the biggest one in the region; the 25th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Founded during the siege of Sarajevo, it is today a major celebration of film, bringing together over 100,000 spectators and filmmakers to celebrate regional, European and international cinema.

Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho picked up a richly deserved Palme d’Or on Saturday for his “Parasite”, a brilliant family-based tragicomedy about the gap between rich and poor, wrapping up the most dazzling and political Cannes Film Festival in years, news wires reported.

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